Car Crashes Into Village Bus and Mounts Sidewalk, Killing Pedestrian in His 30s

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A passenger car has crashed into a bus and mounted a sidewalk near Jeongja Station in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. A man in his 30s who was walking on the sidewalk was struck by the vehicle and has died.

Reporter Kim Gyu-ri has the story.

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A white passenger car is seen having plowed across the sidewalk and into a bicycle storage area.

A yellow village bus, surrounded by police tape, remains on the road, with debris from the damaged vehicles scattered everywhere.

At approximately 6:50 a.m., a report was received that a passenger car had struck a pedestrian at a village bus stop near Jeongja Station in Bundang-gu, Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province.

The car had rear-ended the stationary bus before mounting the sidewalk.

[Bus Driver: I was dropping off and picking up passengers at the stop. Suddenly, there was a loud bang. The car had just plunged in like that. I was flustered as it was my first time experiencing something like this while driving a bus.]

A man in his 30s who was walking on the sidewalk at the time was struck by the car and transported to a hospital in cardiac arrest, but he eventually passed away.

Fortunately, there were no passengers on the bus. The driver of the car, a woman in her 50s identified as A, and a teenage girl who was a passenger in the car were also injured, but their injuries are not considered life-threatening.

Police stated that A was not driving under the influence at the time of the accident.

It is reported that A claimed to the police that the vehicle had experienced sudden unintended acceleration.

The police have booked A on charges of causing death under the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Settlement of Traffic Accidents and are investigating the exact circumstances of the accident based on the vehicle's dashcam footage and nearby CCTV footage.

(Video reporting: Yang Ji-hoon | Video editing: Choi Jin-hwa | Footage courtesy of Gyeonggi Provincial Fire and Disaster Headquarters)
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